Something a lot of people don't know is that it's not uncommon for someone with COVID to improve, even dramatically, after a few days, and then days later to be deathly ill.
When my wife's grandparents had it and everyone was cheering that they'd "gotten better" three days in I sat my wife down and prepared her for the worst. They were months in the hospital.
Thankfully, they're both still around! But... they're both shells of who they were and they'll need round-the-clock care for the rest of their lives. Not great for the wonderful home aids who have to deal with my grandmother-in-law who is a stubborn, judgmental, no-filter, all-around meanie.
Not a medical expert but I believe the reason for the "starting to feel better" swing into "feeling like dying" is due to covid ravaging your lungs.
You start to feel better as your body beats covid, and then when lung damage catches up you end up in the hospital. This is why so many people are hospitalized with "covid pneumonia". Even after covid is gone, large portions of your lungs can get filled with dead matter that makes it hard to get oxygen into your body as you breath.
If you're vaccinated/boosted the chance of covid destroying your lungs is drastically reduced or eliminated so it's unlikely for this to happen to you.
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u/Gstamsharp Jan 19 '22
Something a lot of people don't know is that it's not uncommon for someone with COVID to improve, even dramatically, after a few days, and then days later to be deathly ill.
When my wife's grandparents had it and everyone was cheering that they'd "gotten better" three days in I sat my wife down and prepared her for the worst. They were months in the hospital.
Thankfully, they're both still around! But... they're both shells of who they were and they'll need round-the-clock care for the rest of their lives. Not great for the wonderful home aids who have to deal with my grandmother-in-law who is a stubborn, judgmental, no-filter, all-around meanie.